Assistant -Activities Social Worker(FT/Day/Some weekends)Baldwyn Nursing Home
North Mississippi Medical Center
Tupelo, MS
Full-time
Nursing
Posted on January 18, 2022
Activities Services:
- Assist the Activities' Coordinator in planning, implementing, and evaluating the program's events, themes, schedules, decorating the facility
- Drives facility bus on activity outings, to physician appointments, and other resident related events
- Serves in the role of a certified nursing assistance daily (passes, sets up trays, assist residents with meals.
- Serves in the role of CNA on facility outings
- Serves as a CNA in critical staffing shortage
- Maintains a neat and organized activity work area
- Delivery of resident mail
- Manages petty cash for resident outing, spending, etc.
- Supports the initial and ongoing assessments of residents conditions and activity needs by advising and consulting with the Activities Coordinator
- Maintains daily documentations of refrigerator/freezer temp's logs
- Documentation of amount of food consumed by residents that dine in the dining room at meals that activities assistance is responsible for providing assistance
- Ensures the completion and accuracy of Activity Program records with daily entrance in departmental charts, attendance logs, etc.
- Documentation and scheduling of beauty salon service for residents
- Organizes, stores, maintains, etc., the department's supplies, materials, and equipment
- Maintains an active list of supplies needed for facility beauty shop
- It is preferred that the incumbents have a high school diploma or its equivalent
- Prior successful work/volunteer experience especially with geriatric /handicapped persons is preferred.
- CNA certification
- Knowledge and skill in serving adult populations, primarily geriatrics is very important for successful performance in this position
Above average communications skills are needed to enable the incumbent to be effective in this position